Point() function is too slow!? or what?

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:48 pm

pdwyer wrote:what did you use for the screen capture avi?

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... &start=280

djes · Post by **djes** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:16 pm

Psychophanta wrote:But i think it is not a windows matter but an IBM-PC architecture one. :roll:

Yes, of course. But for a long time, Microsoft should have gived to hardware makers new directives, don't you think?

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:53 pm

Yes, i know the architecture is a patch-onto-patch architecture and intel and microsoft are the ones which have developed it. But the basis (8080 and 8088) PCs were absolutely oriented to office use and NEVER to gaming, i perfectly remember to have read about this aim from several IBM technical (not market) statements.
After that there were the famous ultra power computers: IBM PC/XT/AT, which continued a policy of hardware architecture absolutely direct to office use, with CGA and Hercules, and the ultra graphics: XGA video hardware.
Any other computer except Sinclair Spectrum perhaps, was very superior than IBM PC/XT/AT. There was about 1993 or so when PCs was changed to better and better for games, etc. via patchs and patchs like PCI, Pentium processors and Pentium hardware architectures, etc. and was taking terrain to Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, etc.
But anyway in gaming timing nowadays, any of those architectures like Amiga, SNES, etc. win to current PCs; no doubt.

djes · Post by **djes** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:17 am

I know all that... I've hardcoded on CGA/EGA cards, even the undocumented 160x100x16 colours mode! I miss my Amiga